Dragaera

just for fun

Mon Jan 3 11:08:19 PST 2005

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 MedCat7 at aol.com wrote:

@> When did everyone discover the wonder that is Steven K.Z. Brust and
@> what got you all in to it?

I occasionally get a mood on me where I want to read a terrible Fantasy
novel. This happened once when I was at Barnes & Noble on an unrelated
binge, and I ran through the appropriate aisle. I took one look at the
cover of "Yendi", and I thought "A-ha. It's perfect! It's like some kind
of fantasy version of the Flinx of the Commonwealth series. This is bound
to suck." There was a quote on there about how someone was in love with
the person that would later kill them, and I figured I was in for a
horrible treat. And then I got it home and it massively disappointed me by
being very good. After that some predictable things happened, a couple of
which involved eBay since some stuff was out of print. This would be about
six years ago or so.

As for which are the favorites, I can't say for sure; I've finished with
the novels, but I've just now gotten some of the short stories and I'm
still missing a few, plus I haven't read the graphic novel yet. Which,
hey, might be my favorite after all. You never know, right? In the
meantime, it's Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille. Which Steve doesn't
seem to like, but who cares what that guy thinks anyway?